The Quiet Migration of Belonging: Where Nothing Settles

Gallery view: transparent layers of English and Persian type — 'Becomes', 'It begins quietly', 'not yet', 'almost there' — suspended in front of hanging text panels

Transparent layers of English words and Persian calligraphy hang between the visitor and a wall of text panels, so every phrase — 'It begins quietly', 'not yet', 'almost there', 'Becomes' — is read twice: once as type and once as shadow. The wall text names its terms: suspension, liminality, becoming.

Year: 2026
Category: Installation, Typography

Title provisional — awaiting confirmation

Wall title: The Quiet Migration of Belonging — Where nothing settles. Suspension, liminality, becoming. Narges Sedaghat — Wall title

The second room of The Quiet Migration of Belonging. Hanging text panels — Suspends, Under and others — line the walls; in front of them, transparent sheets carry English phrases alongside Persian calligraphy. Gallery light throws the type onto the walls behind, where it overlaps the panels and changes as the visitor moves.

Gallery

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The artist seen through layered transparent panels of Persian calligraphy and English words

Shadows of the words 'not yet' and Persian calligraphy cast across a gallery wall between hanging text panels

The shadow of 'It begins quietly' falls across a wall of hanging text panels

Hanging panels titled Suspends and Under, overlaid with shadowed type

Cut-paper lines of script and musical notation run along two gallery walls

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